Review: Double (Darkfield Radio)
This creepy, immersive, audio experience, which comes to you via a mobile phone app, turns your home into a haunted space.
July 18, 2020
Jo Litson
Jo Litson is the Editor of Limelight Magazine. She took up the position in late 2018 having joined the magazine as Deputy Editor in 2016. During a 35-year career as an arts journalist she has been a contributor to numerous publications including Limelight, The Australian, The Bulletin, and the Qantas magazine. She was the arts writer and theatre reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph for 12 years until 2018, and has written the labels for the Archibald Prize for the Art Gallery of New South Wales for over 20 years.
Articles by Jo Litson
State Theatre Company South Australia returns to the stage in September
STCSA will present the Victorian thriller Gaslight at the refurbished Her Majesty’s Theatre. Griffin also plans to perform its first live play in September, following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.
July 17, 2020
Patrick Brennan on the road back to the podium after nearly losing a hand
The conductor and AD of the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music talks publicly for the first time about his rehabilitation after almost severing his left hand in a garden accident.
July 15, 2020
ABC Classic and ABC Jazz commission 25 new Australian works
Selected from 486 applications to the ABC’s Australian Music Fund, established to support local artists during the coronavirus crisis, the new works will be presented over the coming year.
July 14, 2020
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Limelight receives a City of Sydney grant
Limelight has received a Small Business Grant from the City of Sydney through its COVID-19 Relief Grants for a three-part program to support performing arts companies as they gradually return to the stage.
July 9, 2020
Musica Viva helps students Strike a Chord online
The new National Chamber Music Championship for high school students, launched by Musica Viva to mark its 75th anniversary, will now take place online.
July 8, 2020
2020 Classical AIR Awards nominations announced
Amy Dickson, Joseph Tawadros, Katie Noonan & the Australian String Quartet, Richard Tognetti & Erin Helyard, and WASO, Asher Fisch & Stuart Skelton are this year’s nominees.
July 7, 2020
Review: Hamilton (Disney+ stream)
Musical theatre fans around the world rejoiced when Disney+ announced it would stream a film of the stage production of Hamilton. Does it live up to expectations? You bet!
July 7, 2020
Sydney Theatre Company warns of “material uncertainty” about its future
Posting an operating loss for 2019, the board and auditors have raised concerns about Sydney Theatre Company’s ongoing financial future in the newly released Annual Report.
July 2, 2020
Review: Who’s Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started the Iraq War (Curveball Creative, live streamed)
If you love musicals and are aching to see a live show, this innovative live streamed production is a wonderful substitute.
June 26, 2020
A new survey of Australian orchestras confirms female composers are still vastly outnumbered
The Living Music Report analyses what the MPA funded orchestras played in 2019 and finds that music reflecting the culture diversity of 21st-century Australia is “notably absent”.
June 24, 2020
Meet the first Australian singer to be back in a studio rehearsing a full opera
Soprano Eva Kong is about to make her debut as Manon in Seoul – though the performances, which were planned to take place in front of an audience, will now stream live.
June 19, 2020
Australian soprano ready to perform at yours
Eleanor Lyons and her conductor/pianist husband Vladimir Fanshil have formed LIVEATYOURS, a new project offering “micro-concerts” in people’s homes, which launches tonight.
June 17, 2020